In the present case, the relatively distant location of the nerve fiber layer hemorrhage from the swollen optic nerve head represents ... avoided to prevent optic atrophy and permanent vision ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

So the optic nerve is your vision nerve. It's the nerve or the cable that connects your eye to your brain. So in glaucoma, we see a very slow and progressive, meaning worsening, atrophy of the ...